Rails: how to disable before_destroy callback when it's being destroyed because of the parent is being destroyed (:dependent => :destroy)

Question

I have two classes: Parent and Child with

Child:

belongs_to :parent

and

Parent

has_many :children, :dependent          


        

Answer 1

has_many :childs, :dependent => :delete_all

This will delete all the children without running any hooks.

You can find the documentation at: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Associations/ClassMethods.html#method-i-has_many